@Remington Lyman so far I’ve narrowed it down to A and B zip codes (defined in a document from Zeke at Reafco), and in the near future I’d like to narrow that down from around 20 zips to 5.

This really narrowed my focus enough to make searching an efficient process.

We do have monetary reserves and we've narrowed our scope to locations around Albany Park, Rosco Village, Irving Park etc.

I have narrowed it down to taking it out of my own house; but not sure which way to go.

Try to narrow your list down to the top 3-4 that seem to have the features that are important to you.Once your list is narrowed, it's time to test each one.

@Fillip Nelson You could try a skip tracing tool to narrow down the location and or additional contact information of the LLC owners

I saw a property that has a huge land, but the land does not seem to be good for further development as smaller lots for single families (because it has narrow front facing the street) — see the attached image.I have an idea to build a small road as the image illustrates below, and then subdivide the land into smaller pieces to build single family homes.I have two questions about building the street:  1.

Speak to an agent about what you're interested in and to try to narrow your focus. 

Some markets will have different types of inventory and metrics for the cash flow/ appreciation so I would narrow it down from there.

This may be thinking a little bit ahead, but once I narrowed down my potential markets to 1 or 2 cities, I then researched everything I could about the different neighborhoods.